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chem, a son of Cade, of the Godolphin Arab line. Buz- 

 zard was the sire of three celebrated chestnut horses, to 

 wit, Castrel, Selim, and Rubens, foaled respectively in 

 the years 1801, 1802, and 1805. Their dam, the Alex- 

 ander mare, has often been styled the most remarkable 

 mare in the Stud Book. Without going quite so far, in 

 all justice it may be said there are few more celebrated ; 

 her sire, Alexander, was by Eclipse, from Grecian Prin- 

 cess. The dam of the Alexander mare was by Highflyer. 

 Castrel, the eldest of the three brothers, begot Merlin, 

 foaled in 18 15, and Pantaloon, a chestnut with dark spots, 

 in 1824. Pantaloon was the sire of Sleight of Hand, 

 foaled in 1836. The late Sir Tatton Sykes was very 

 partial to the blood, and had very many of his mares in 

 his stud. 1 84 1 was a great year for Pantaloon, as his 

 daughter, Ghuznee, won the Oaks, and his son, Satirist, 

 the Doncaster St. Leger, beating Coronation, the Derby 

 winner, for whom the St. Leger was looked upon as a 

 certainty. In the same year Satirist also astonished the 

 public by carrying off the Gold Vase at Ascot from 

 Lanercost. He was a bay-brown horse ; his dam Sar- 

 casm, a brown mare, by Teniers, a son of Rubens, from 

 Banter (Touchstone's dam), by Master Henry. 



Ghuznee was a bright bay, and through her dam 

 Languish, also bay, traced back to Herod (the founder 

 of both the Woodpecker and Highflyer lines), through 

 Cain, Paulovitz, Sir Paul, Sir Peter Teazle (commonly 

 called Sir Peter), and Highflyer. She was a very fine 

 and strongly-formed mare, although only 1 5 hands and 

 half ail inch, and was pronounced by Mr. George Tatter- 



